Seeking work-life balance? This article lists a few strategies for staying productive while maintaining that balance between your personal and professional lives. For creative tasks, try to work during uninterrupted periods of time, as interruptions during creative work can make it take longer to resume work. Also keep phones out of your bedroom, as they can lead to insomnia.

As the household roles of men and women converge, fathers are becoming more comfortable expressing their desire for work-life balance, experts say. "I think that more and more men who are trying, like women have been, to balance work and family are being more vocal about their needs," says Aaron Rochlen, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin who studies men and masculinity.

Women aren't the only ones who are serious about finding work-life balance -- men say they also want more flexibility to be with their families. For example, Deloitte male employees formed "Deloitte Dads" to help new dads with time management and work-life balance. "Why do we continue to focus on this as a women's issue, when the evidence makes it so clear that it's shared by men?" asks Kathleen Gerson, a sociologist at New York University.

Aim for better work-life balance this holiday season by disconnecting from your gadgets at a certain time each day, delegating more and going "completely off the grid once a week," Meghan Biro writes. "Life can be beautiful, but you'll never notice if you're checking your email, tweets or Facebook updates," she writes.